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ChelceCarter

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  1. I'm with a temp agency right now and it's working really well. I'm mostly doing administrative work, and honestly could be making more if I said I needed to make more at the initial interview. Also, it's a regular day job, which is sort of nice.
  2. Hello! So I've been chatting with the same professor for about a year now, and really want to work with her as my advisor. She even emailed me just the other day to say that she had an exciting research project that she would like my help with. However, she's going on sabbatical for the upcoming semester. Is it okay just to take classes the first semester and maybe do some volunteering while I wait for her to get back? We could still probably communicate through email, but I've never done grad school before so I just wanted some advice.
  3. I'm continuing to work with a temp agency while occasionally helping the in-laws renovate a small house on their property near my grad school. I'm also trying to have less stuff and have a better time adulting, instead of spending my weekends being lazy. I'm also continuing my volunteering efforts with a local domestic violence shelter, even though my hours there are reduced because of the full time position I have now.
  4. I'm going to Ball State with funding, and I'm really excited.
  5. The biggest problem I encountered in my application was stress. I was only applying to one school because of reasons, and if I didn't get in at that school, I had no idea what I was going to do. I also needed the assistantship, and wasn't sure if I was going to get that or not. On top of all of that stress, I got let go from my job of over four years (that I had hoped would last me until I needed to leave for grad school). I had originally wanted to have all of my application materials in before the new year, but ended up getting them in closer to the end of January, two weeks before the deadline. Luckily, I got in with the assistantship, and the cat we adopted really helped with the stress, but it was a lot of hard, emotional work. Writing the materials wasn't that stressful, but writing them with a looming last day of work and nothing lined up after that was.
  6. I'll be 25 when I start my masters, and 27 when I finish.
  7. I'm getting the Acer Iconia, which does most everything the surface does but for less. It runs full Windows and my mom even has the whole Adobe suite on hers and it runs great.
  8. The things that helped my application the most were: 1. Taking a year off between my undergrad and graduate work to devote time to volunteering and proving that I could survive and succeed in the world. So much of my undergraduate career was spent working so that I could eat and stay in school, and I didn't really have the time to bulk up my resume. If you aren't happy with your resume/cv, I would honestly consider holding off and either getting a lower level job in your field or getting a scrappy retail job and do work in your field on the side while staying up to date on relevant literature. 2. Spend a lot of time writing. I was really bad at this one, but my creative writing majored husband kept pushing edits and revisions until my pieces were perfect. His mother helped as well, and the multiple perspectives were very useful for understanding all the ways my piece could be interpreted. 3. Meet/research POIs as soon as possible. I met mine almost a year before I even applied just to talk about the program, and found out later that she was also the grad program director. Meeting with her got me really excited about the program, and because I made that connection with her early on, she helped with the final draft of my SOP.
  9. I'm probably in the minority here, but I had only applied to one graduate program and spent a lot of time on that one application. I got in five days after the deadline with an assistantship, but like I said, I'm in a weird minority group of applicants.
  10. I really have no plans of doing a PhD. Honestly, the usefulness of a Masters could be argued, but since I have an assistantship and it will be in the area I plan on making my home, I think it's worth it. Plus, getting the specialization in the field that I want to pursue will make thing easier.
  11. I just want to pick out classes already and do grad school stuff. It's cool that I got the email that says I'm admitted, but I want more now.

    1. MidwesternAloha

      MidwesternAloha

      There's always shopping for grad school supplies and house hunting :)

    2. angel_kaye13

      angel_kaye13

      :-D Hollah! But maybe it'll do us good to wait. Still, i'm glad I'm not the only nerd!!*^^*

  12. Hello! So I've been accepted to Ball State University with an assistantship for the upcoming fall. The main draw of this program, besides the fact that it's in the area that I want to work in for the rest of my life, is that it has a non-thesis option with internship, so I would be able to start working with organizations that I might want to make a career with sooner. Now, I've never done an internship because time that wasn't spent in class or sustaining a long-distance relationship during my undergrad career was spent at my retail job before they decided that they should limit part-timers to 25 hours a week. The past year I've been out of school and volunteering with a domestic violence shelter in the area to build up my CV, and apparently it worked because I got in. I just had a few questions about non-thesis options/internships and wondered if anyone might be able to answer them. 1. Has anyone done a non-thesis MA? If so, what did it involve and what were your overall feelings about the program? 2. Has anyone done an internship with a non-profit group? If so, what were your duties and what experiences did you have? 3. Do I need to know anything about the two things mentioned above that I might not have heard about yet? I think that's all, but if there's anything else that is important to know, let me know. I like to be as prepared as possible for these sorts of things.
  13. Muncie is a cool place, and if you're interested in working with Native Americans, then Cailin Murray would be a cool professor to work with. I took one of her courses when I was there freshman year, and it was very interesting.
  14. Hello! My name is Chelce and I will be attending Ball State this upcoming Fall. I'm in the anthropology program and have an interest in domestic violence intervention and prevention, and plan on working with A Better Way during my graduate studies. I'm really looking forward to starting this fall!
  15. I got accepted to Ball State's anth program for Fall 2015, and I got the assistantship as well! I'm super excited and can hardly wait to start my work with domestic violence intervention in the Muncie community!
  16. My husband and I decided long ago that I would do grad school first (since I knew what I was wanting to do) and that he would follow after me, if he decided to pursue his MFA at all. He has promised to follow me where ever I should go, and that he'd work as much as he'd have to to make ends meet. It's really nice to have that support structure, and honestly, I don't know that I could have applied without his help editing my essays (he's a creative writing major). Also I get very anxious sometimes, and he's been really helpful in keeping all of that in check.
  17. I know I'm late to the party, but I really like applied anthropology. Not many programs acknowledge it as a subfield, but it's super useful because it allows a person to use anthropology to impact a real world setting. For example, I'm applying to the applied program with a focus on domestic violence intervention. I don't know if applied was an option for you, but if it was, it might be something worth looking into.
  18. Hello! I am a December 2013 graduate of Purdue University, and in the year that I've taken off, I've volunteered with a domestic violence shelter while keeping up to date on relevant blogs and news stories about my interests. I sent my application in a week ago, after a month of working hard to finish it up, and am really excited to hear back from the program. I've been working with my prospective advisor on the narrative essay portion, and found out a few weeks ago that she's also the head of the graduate program in the department. Hopefully I'll know something in the next month. I'm really bad at waiting, but recently have adopted a cat, so she makes things less stressful.
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